{"id":13272,"date":"2017-12-13T12:48:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13272"},"modified":"2017-12-13T12:48:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:48:01","slug":"word-of-the-day-283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/13\/word-of-the-day-283\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Swidden<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a plot of land cleared for farming by burning away vegetation. <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/swidden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeologicalconservancy.org\/reading-jeffersons-landscape-monticello\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reading Jefferson\u2019s Landscape<\/a><\/em>,&#8221;\u00a0David Malakoff, <em><strong>American Archaeology<\/strong><\/em> (winter 2017-18, partially online):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That shift from tobacco to wheat had far-reaching effects on Monticello&#8217;s landscape and enslaved workers, archaeologists have found. One big change was increased deforestation and erosion: while tobacco could thrive in holes dug in small clearings in forests called swiddens, wheat required bigger expanses of flatter, cleared land that could be plowed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The usage seems somewhat divergent from the definition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swidden: a plot of land cleared for farming by burning away vegetation. [Dictionary.com] Noted in &#8220;Reading Jefferson\u2019s Landscape,&#8221;\u00a0David Malakoff, American Archaeology (winter 2017-18, partially online): That shift from tobacco to wheat had far-reaching effects on Monticello&#8217;s landscape and enslaved workers, archaeologists have found. One big change was increased deforestation and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/13\/word-of-the-day-283\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13273,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13272\/revisions\/13273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}